Posts Tagged “Jerry Henry”

A local guy at a local rag wrote today that Earth First is coming back to bid on the city’s trash contract in 2010. He writes about this years’ bid. “Earth First’s was the lowest and would have saved the city about $2.2 million a year.”

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Tags: City of Fort Wayne, Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, Kevin Leininger, Tom Henry

Rick Stevenson, the self-proclaimed altruistic savior of Wayne Township penned an article in Frost Illustrated today. His complaint is with Summit Recycling & Transfer on Pontiac Street, which as you all (should) know is a Jerry Henry enterprise.

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Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, Rick Stevenson, Summit Recycling

As I’ve commented earlier, any savings the city would have realized from contracting Earth First for the garbage contract would not have been passed on to Fort Wayne residents.

Now comes this.

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Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Tom Henry

Over in Whitley County, they’ve been busy bidding their recycling program. Rather than making an executive decision to simply shove aside other bids, the Whitley County Solid Waste District Board actually held a vote on Tuesday. The result was a decision to start the process of negotiating with Whitley Environmental for the county’s recycling service.

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Tags: Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, Recycling, Whitley Environmental

From King Henry’s office comes this:

Fort Wayne, Ind. – The City of Fort Wayne has reached an agreement with National Serv-All to provide garbage and recycling collection services for 2010 at 2009 rates. National Serv-All’s current four-year contract with the City expires December 31, 2009. The proposed one-year deal, which requires approval by the Board of Works, would freeze rates at current levels, and calls for monthly meetings to improve service.

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Tags: Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Paul Lagemann, Tom Henry

No time today, and we also need to do a little more research. Stay tuned.

Tags: Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Paul Lagemann, Tom Henry

I decided to take time from cleaning the gutters today to give a small retrospective of Mayor Henry’s term in office. I’ve listed below some of Henry’s major non-accomplishments. It’s not all-encompassing, so feel free to add your thoughts in the comments section.

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Tags: Budget, Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Glynn Hines, Gregg Walbridge, Hardball Capital, Harrison Square, I&M, Jerry Henry, John Shoaff, Jon A. Bragalone, Karen Goldner, Liz Brown, Marty Bender, Monosodium Glutamate, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Didier, Tom Henry, Vince Robinson

This really made my day. Tracy Warner has finally had enough of the Henry administration and their lack of transparency. No, let me rephrase that. He’s had it with the bullshit coming from the 9th floor.

Today, access to city records is strictly limited; the administration is less than forthcoming about far too many aspects of government; and even information that is clearly a matter of public record can be difficult to see.

On Sept. 7, for example, The Journal Gazette – whose reporters are no longer permitted to look through the city’s claims – asked for billing records showing how much money has been paid to lawyers representing the city in the case involving Indiana Michigan Power’s lease of City Light. This is clearly a matter of public interest, and residents of Fort Wayne have every right to see how many of their tax dollars they are paying to which lawyers.

Two days later, the city said it would comply.

Five weeks later, the newspaper is still waiting for those records. Citizens still don’t know how much they are paying the lawyers to wage a debatable fight that has yet to even go to court.

Warner and the Journal Gazette were at one time the primary cheerleaders of the Henry camp. Now it seems Warner is yet another jilted media girlfriend. There’s no doubt that Henry’s “Earth First” cover-up gave impetus to Warner’s rage.

Go read the entire article and then come back and leave your comments.

What a nice surprise on a chilly fall morning. I think from now on I’ll refer to him as “one-term Tommy.”

Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, Tom Henry, Tracy Warner

As the raging debate over Fort Wayne’s garbage contract continues, there are a couple of areas of interest worth looking at. The first is minor, but worth pointing out.

The Henry administration has hired H.J. Umbaugh & Associates to study Earth First’s financial health. This begs two questions.

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Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Jerry Henry, Karen Goldner, National Serv-All, Summit Recycling, Tom Henry

Karen Goldner has revealed why she doesn’t think Earth First would cut it as the city’s garbage vender, via FWP.

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Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, Jon A. Bragalone, Karen Goldner, National Serv-All, Tom Henry

In an article by Ben Lanka this morning, Tim Pape is just now admitting one of his business partners owns 5% of Earth First. On top of that, his law firm represents them. We should have caught that when we posted here, who was the registered agent of Earth First.

Jon A. Bragalone
1400 One Summit Square
Fort Wayne , IN 46802

Bragalone is an attorney with Carson Boxberger, LLP along with councilman Pape.

Pape disclosed that one of his law partners represents Earth First and is a 5 percent owner of the company.

He said it was a good thing the city has received competition for this service and noted that Earth First’s proposal was the least expensive of all the others.

“If we get competition for the garbage contract, we save millions,” Pape said.

Question. How would he know it was millions unless he saw the contract?

Now, City Council Attorney Joe Bonahoom is stating that the RFP process should not have been used, and the contract should be re-bid. We questioned the use of an RFP yesterday.

This is a $9 million a year contract, and typically cities issue a call for competitive bids for contracts of this scope. This contract was not placed for bid. Instead, there was a call for “request-for-proposals,” or RFP’s. This allowed the city to pick whomever they deem best suited for the job.

Also, on WOWO last FWP is reporting he heard that Gregg Walbridge, president of Earth First stated Jerry Henry has given up his 5% stake in the company. I assume he still owns the transfer station, Summit Recycling.

Lanka is also reporting that the city is once again sitting down again with National Serv-all to discuss extending their existing contract.

Here’s a point I’ve not hit on. Personally, I don’t think the city should be in the garbage business. Let private enterprise determine who services the residents. I liked it better when I had a choice. But no, Graham Richard had to buy 80,000 containers at a cost of $3.7 million to make sure the streets looked pretty and all of the dumpsters were one color.

Why not require residents to use a dumpster from whichever service they use and get the hell out of the garbage business?

Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Jerry Henry, Jon A. Bragalone, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Henry